Timepieces

SINGAPORE (Oct 1): Like every other Urwerk timepiece, the UR-111C took a total of about three years to build, assemble and develop before it was finally launched in 2018. But co-founder and chief designer Martin Frei says the idea for this model can be tr

This watch has happened sooner than expected. Well, for us, anyway. When the Fiftysix collection was introduced in earlier this year at the SIHH watch fair, watch pundits were happily surprised at its price proposition. The most ‘basic’ of the Fiftys

SINGAPORE (Sept 17): Instead of kicking a football around or rough-housing with his cousins as a teenager, Pascal Raffy spent every Sunday with his grandfather learning about timepieces in the French Ardennes region. Raffy says that from the age of 13 yea

It is the season of the horological Oscars once again, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2018. The watch elites will have their say. Champagne will be spilled. Not-so-humble brags will be uttered. Egos will be bruised. And maybe, just maybe, authen

SINGAPORE (Sept 17): Instead of kicking a football around or rough-housing with his cousins as a teenager, Pascal Raffy spent every Sunday with his grandfather learning about timepieces in the French Ardennes region. Raffy says that from the age of 13 yea

SINGAPORE (Aug 30): Just when we thought the Swatch Group couldn’t surprise us more (what could be more startling than their shock exit from Baselworld?), they go ahead and delight the watchmaking world with a brand-new invention, developed in collabora

SINGAPORE (Aug 27):  Everything old is new again. In Hollywood, remakes are the order of the day. We have already witnessed the Tomb Raider reboot, and later this year, we will be treated to an update of Robin Hood. In the fashion universe, 1990s-style l

SINGAPORE (Aug 20): A watchmaker that traverses the deep blue as nimbly as deep space had better be confident of the territories it navigates. Omega shows no qualms, evidently certain it will not be caught unprepared in its relationships with ocean or Moo

SINGAPORE (Aug 27):  Everything old is new again. In Hollywood, remakes are the order of the day. We have already witnessed the Tomb Raider reboot, and later this year, we will be treated to an update of Robin Hood. In the fashion universe, 1990s-style l

So Jaquet Droz almost casually dropped this on us. On the occasion of its 280th anniversary, amid the many commemorative timepieces trhat include the amazing Tropical Bird Repeater and one of our favourite wristwatches of 2018, the Grande Seconde Skelet